Children are falling from military housing windows. Why did the Pentagon loosen its interpretation of a 2017 law meant to ...

Pete Hegseth leaned in toward the camera. Since the early days of his tenure as secretary of defense, the former Fox News host had been posting clips on social media for the public. But this time, ...

I’m no longer homeless, but I’m still close to the issue. I’m now working on a documentary about a shelter that specifically houses homeless women veterans, just like I once was. Their struggles are ...

Bernardino Mijares has spent most of his life searching for his father. For many years, all the 33-year-old tricycle taxi driver knew was the name his mother had told him—which later was found to be ...

As my father, a Navy pilot, neared the end of his life, we watched “Top Gun: Maverick” together. “It was good,” he commented. “I’m better.” That was my father, Richard Chester Macke, a Naval Academy ...

Being a Marine and later an international aid and human rights worker taught me how to read a room. Vietnam. Beirut. Somalia. Bosnia. Rwanda. Iraq. Afghanistan. Survival depended on noticing what ...

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to Quantico, Virginia, last September, he delivered a blunt message: Things were changing fast in ...

If not for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, Valeria Casillas probably would not have joined the military. But in the surge of patriotism following deadly terrorist attacks on New York City and outside ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs opened an Inspector General probe in February in response to a War Horse investigation alleging that veterans were being cut off from one-on-one therapy at VA ...

Filipino laborers excavate a trench in the Philippine city of Marawi during a search for three U.S. servicemen executed by Japanese forces in 1942. A Virginia-based nonprofit partnered with Filipino ...

The soldier wakes at 6 a.m. after getting only three or four hours of sleep. He showers, shaves, and puts on his uniform by 7 a.m., even as his head pounds from a traumatic brain injury. Sometimes, ...

When Mayra Diaz opened the door of her Army barracks room in 2022, she didn’t realize it was the beginning of the end of her military career. She had never met the soldier standing in front of her, ...